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40d:Gear assembly
A gear assembly a machine component that is used to move power between adjacent machine components such as water wheels, windmills, axles, and other gear assemblies. They can be linked to a lever using mechanims. Devices such as waterwheels and windmills provide power that can be transferred by gear assemblies into adjacent devices. This allows the transfer of vertical motion to horizontal and vice versa.
Gears can be constructed from the [b]uild menu under [M]achine Components and [g]ear. They require one mechanism to construct.
When connected to a lever gears can be 'disconnected' by activating the lever. However, be warned, devices connected vertically to a linked gear may collapse when disconnected. An example is building a windmill directly ontop of a gear and then 'disconnecting' the gear using a lever; this causes the windmill construction to collapse. Instead, create a second gear adjacent to the linked gear upon which to support the windmill.
Each gear in a chain of gears saps 5 units of power. (unconfirmed) --Markavian